She doesn’t believe in magic. He is magic. But when they meet, a spark is lit, and neither will ever be the same in this charming new standalone in the Witches of West Harbor series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot!
Frankie
A trained therapist, Francesca Giovanni knows that there’s a scientific explanation for everything. Unfortunately, she lives in West Harbor, CT, a town that’s recently exploded in popularity thanks to “witch tourism.” Suddenly, witches are everywhere, offering locals their psychic services. Frankie’s fine with this…until aspiring teenage witches begin to disappear, and strange things start happening in the lake house next door. That’s when Frankie begins to suspect that not all newcomers to West Harbor have the good of the community in mind—especially not her new neighbor, Ash Merit.
Ash
Ash Merit finds lost things—and people—for a living. All he wants is to help his clients, and maybe get to know his new neighbor, the stunningly beautiful (and newly single) Dr. Frankie Giovanni, a little better. But thanks to some troublesome young witches—not to mention his often faulty psychic “superpower”—everything is going wrong. If only Frankie wasn’t so distractingly attractive…and so unwilling to admit that there might not be a scientific explanation for everything, including the flames that ignite whenever the two of them kiss. That’s something Ash hopes he can change…but first he has to convince Frankie to help him find not only the missing girls, but the truth about what’s happening in West Harbor…a truth that could change everything Ash and Frankie thought they knew about themselves—and the magic of love.
Press
Frankie Giovanni just wants the cat living under her porch to finally come out and to achieve petty revenge on the owner of the house next door. Her hometown of West Harbor, CT, has been overrun by tourists since the supposed supernatural event at the tricentennial celebration at the courthouse. Frankie is a therapist and a woman of science, and there’s nothing magical about her life lately, including her ex-husband leaving her and the annoyance of summer vacationers blasting Jimmy Buffet songs all afternoon while out on the lake. Ashraf “Ash” Merit has been quietly charmed by the woman next door. When his employer asks him to seek out a distant relation who is missing, using his superpower psychic abilities, it places him directly in the path of Frankie’s ire. However, they join forces when they stumble upon a witchy influencer cult that might endanger their families, and they get caught in a search for missing teen girls. Readers will be drawn into the mystery while being charmed by the banter and slow burn between Frankie and Ash. VERDICT Cabot returns to West Harbor (after Enchanted To Meet You) for another magical love story, this time with a skeptical heroine and a cinnamon-roll hero who’s obsessed with her. Hand to fans of Sarah Hawley and Erin Sterling.
—Morgan Lockard-Ellis
